Nikolay Gavrilovich Vuchetich

Background

Nikolay Gavrilovich Vuchetich was born on February 25, 1845.

Education

After graduating from the Tiflis gymnasium (1864), Nikolay Gavrilovich studied in Saint Petersburg at the Medical and Surgical Academy (now the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy) (1864-1867), then at the Physics and Mathematics Department, from where he was dismissed by request in 1871.

Career

The first work is an ethnographic essay Four months in Dagestan published in the newspaper Kavkaz (1864). Some of the writer’s stories were translated into French, German, English, and dates during his lifetime. languages. The author became famous after writing In the Steep Shores.

Nikolay Gavrilovich served in Astrakhan (from 1871 to 1874 as a junior assistant to the ruler of the governor's office; in 1877, secretary of the fishing department) and Nizhny Novgorod (teacher in 1880, and teacher of French in the cadet corps in 1881). In 1885 he became a tax inspector of the Treasury.

In 1889, for health reasons, Nikolay Gavrilovich moved to Ackerman, where he served in the same position, then to Odessa (1892). Retired from 1894.

References

• Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. Volume 1
  1989